47 heatstroke victims in Shanghai this summer

Make sure to buy your air conditioner a beer for saving your life: “Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention said today that local hospitals have received 47 heatstroke patients this summer and two of them died. Shanghai introduced a heatstroke reporting system this year, requiring hospitals to give an immediate report after receiving patients with heatstroke. There was no heatstroke data before. A 31-year-old schoolmaster who came to Shanghai for training died on June 23 when the temperature reached 35 degrees Celsius. A 41-year-old migrant worker at a local construction site died last Thursday when the mercury hit 37 degrees.” [Shanghai Daily]